International Business News - WWII http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Polish authorities completed an autopsy Wednesday of a World War II leader in an effort to shed light on his mysterious death, then laid him to rest again with full military honors alongside Poland's ancient kings in Krakow's main cathedral. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/182514-poland-wwii-general.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/in-murder-probe-poland-autopsies-wwii-leader.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/in-murder-probe-poland-autopsies-wwii-leader.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:48:14 EST A Florida man's quest to find hundreds of U.S. Marines buried anonymously after one of World War II's bloodiest battles could lead to the largest identification of American war dead in history. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/182262-wwii-marines-found.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/researchers-139-wwii-marines-entombed-on-atoll.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/researchers-139-wwii-marines-entombed-on-atoll.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:06:30 EST Tearful relatives of sailors lost in a World War II sea battle threw flowers into the sea on Wednesday as Australia marked the 67th anniversary of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney--the first since the ship was found on the ocean floor after decades of mystery. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/177827-australia-wwii-ship.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/australia-honors-sailors-lost-in-wwii-sea-battle.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/australia-honors-sailors-lost-in-wwii-sea-battle.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:34:54 EST Tearful relatives of sailors lost in a World War II sea battle threw flowers into the sea on Wednesday as Australia marked the 67th anniversary of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney--the first since the ship was found on the ocean floor after decades of mystery. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081118/australia-honors-sailors-lost-in-wwii-sea-battle.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:20:17 EST The body of World War II prime minister and army commander Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski will be exhumed as investigators probe whether he died in an accidental plane crash or was assassinated, a Polish official said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/poland-to-exhume-wwii-commanders-remains.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:16:51 EST A 90-year-old who says she's the woman being kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of World War II's most famous photographs reunited in town with the Navy on Sunday--days before she is to serve as grand marshal of the city's Veterans Day parade. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/172172-wwii-photo.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/nurse-in-times-square-war-photo-reunites-with-navy.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/nurse-in-times-square-war-photo-reunites-with-navy.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:47:34 EST A 90-year-old who says she's the woman being kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of World War II's most famous photographs reunited in town with the Navy on Sunday--days before she is to serve as grand marshal of the city's Veterans Day parade. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/171956-wwii-photo.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081109/nurse-in-times-square-war-photo-reunites-with-navy.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081109/nurse-in-times-square-war-photo-reunites-with-navy.htm Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:17:51 EST It took six decades, but a wrongly convicted World War II veteran's family is finally getting his back pay with interest. Samuel Snow's widow, Margaret, and son, Ray, received a check for $27,580 on Thursday, 64 years after Snow was wrongly convicted of participating in a riot that led to his imprisonment for more than a year. Snow died at age 83 in July, hours after the Army apologized and reversed his dishonorable discharge. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081023/veterans-family-gets-back-pay-with-interest.htm Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:20:45 EDT Germany on Wednesday rejected a ruling by Italy's top criminal court that it must pay damages to the families of victims of a World War II massacre. Italy's Court of Cassation on Tuesday ordered Berlin to pay a total of euro1 million (US$1.3 million) to nine family members of victims of the June 1944 massacre. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081022/germany-rejects-italian-wwii-damages-ruling.htm Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:05:06 EDT Gino Massetti was 15 when he was rounded up by German troops near the Italian village of Falzano di Cortona and herded with 10 other civilians into a barn. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/italian-survivor-recalls-wwii-massacre.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:11:19 EDT Austrian authorities say a small earthquake set off a large World War II-era bomb in the garden of a Vienna home. No one was injured in the explosion. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080920/austria-quake-sets-off-buried-wwii-bomb.htm Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:29:10 EDT A 90-year-old former officer in the Nazi army is fit enough to stand trial on charges he ordered the reprisal killings of 14 civilians in Italy during World War II, a Munich court ruled Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/german-court-rules-nazi-era-officer-fit-for-trial.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:56:12 EDT Polish prosecutors said Wednesday they are investigating whether Poland's World War II prime minister and chief army commander, Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, died accidentally in a 1943 plane crash or was assassinated. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080903/poland-to-probe-mysterious-death-of-wwii-commander.htm Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:46:09 EDT An attorney for hundreds of Kentucky families forced to sell their farms to the Army during World War II argued in federal court Tuesday that government agents bullied them into accepting bad deals in the wake of Pearl Harbor. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080820/court-hears-arguments-in-wwii-land-dispute.htm Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:26:51 EDT An attorney for hundreds of Kentucky families forced to sell their farms to the Army during World War II argued in federal court Tuesday that government agents bullied them into accepting bad deals in the wake of Pearl Harbor. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/112275-wwii-land-dispute.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080819/court-hears-arguments-in-wwii-land-dispute.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080819/court-hears-arguments-in-wwii-land-dispute.htm Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:50:56 EDT The Army formally apologized Saturday for the wrongful conviction of 28 black soldiers accused of rioting and lynching an Italian prisoner of war in Seattle more than six decades ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080727/black-soldiers-get-apology-for-wwii-convictions.htm Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:34:44 EDT A huge cache of undetonated World War II ammunition and explosives was found near a public beach in northern Poland and is being destroyed, an official said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/ammo-from-world-war-ii-is-found-near-polish-beach.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:19:13 EDT The Warsaw Uprising museum said Monday that it is trying to track down former residents of the Polish capital removed from their homes by the Nazis during the 1944 revolt. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080616/historians-seek-world-war-ii-eviction-survivors.htm Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:24:29 EDT British computer experts acknowledged defeat on Friday after a German amateur radio enthusiast won a challenge to crack secret messages encoded by a World War Two cipher. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20071116/wwii-german-transmission.htm Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:19:35 EST